Nora Gámez Torres | The Miami Herald
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The cruise companies knew that traveling to Cuba for tourism was illegal. So, instead of sipping mojitos at Varadero beach, Americans going were supposed to participate in humanitarian initiatives. However, the services included excursions that didn't comply with travel rules.
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Cubans in several cities worldwide have organized demonstrations in solidarity with the Cuban people and the young artists and activists of Archiepiélago, the group that called the march.
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The Cuban government rejected a U.S. donation of one million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine because the offer came too late and had too many requirements attached, the island’s foreign minister said in a gathering with accredited diplomats in Havana.
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The Cuban government engaged in systematic abuses against people arrested for protesting in July as part of a plan to suppress dissent, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Tuesday that documents 130 cases of arbitrary arrests, ill-treatment of detainees, and abuse-ridden criminal prosecutions.
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The assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs says the U.S. is not pressing for near-term elections in Haiti, but is "pressing for support for Haitian-led solutions."
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The Biden administration announced sanctions Wednesday on the general in charge of the Cuban military and a special-forces unit in response to a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters last week.
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The Cuban government will lift restrictions so travelers will be able to take unlimited food, medicines and hygiene products without paying customs duties, a measure taken after Cubans took to the street Sunday to ask for food, medicines, and “the end of the dictatorship.”
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Thousands of Cubans across the island country took to the streets to protest against the current dictatorship as people grapple with a shortage of basic necessities amid rising COVID-19 cases.
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As the Biden administration is set to review U.S. policy toward Cuba, several pro-engagement organizations have lobbied the current administration to reverse former President Donald Trump’s Cuba policies, heavily focused on sanctions against the Cuban government and its military.
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The decision will be announced later on Monday, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has not yet been publicly announced.
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The Cuban government unleashed a wave of attacks against what Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel called a “media show.”